Introducing the Geolocator
Our new Location-Aware Browsing page now has an official mascot. Meet the Geolocator…he’ll help you find your way around, and respects your privacy too.
As always, thanks to the folks at the Royal Order and the Delicious Design League for applying their loopy genius to our products.
May 12th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
He’s missing an eye! He’s stuck his fingernail in some bizarre filthy alien slit where an ear would go! Argghhh!
Please please replace this with a cute red panda/Foxkeh in the same pose.
May 12th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Also, that page fails to make the point that (as I understand it) a web site can use a similar IP address lookup technique to determine your location even when you choose not to share geolocation info with a site.
It’s a subtle point, but people should not be misled into thinking that if they deny geolocation info then sites won’t be able to figure out a lot about them.
May 12th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I completely agree with Skierpage’s second comment. There is a huge thread on mozillazine complaining about geo-location and privacy concerns and in a sense no matter what, sites can still figure out a point close to you.
I also think there should be links to some example websites that use geo-location. You explain it but don’t show any examples. I have yet to find a site that uses this so I can actually test the feature.
May 12th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Cool graphic!
That is the point of this post right?
May 13th, 2009 at 1:01 am
I agree with skierpage and kurt about the graphic issue. Something just seems to be wrong with this graphic. For geolocation I would prefer to see a person with a compass, not a paper (a map?).
Also, please don’t recommend people to use the “delete cookies” option in order to delete some of their information. Instead, guide them how to delete site-specific data.
May 13th, 2009 at 4:03 am
This mascot is no one who I would like to meet alone in a dark street.
Simply terrible.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
FWIW, the “Addons in 2009″ presentation by Nick Nguyen (osunick) has on slide 3 a Firefox-like character in somewhat similar adventurer clothes and hat.
http://www.slideshare.net/osunick/addons-in-2009?type=presentation